Re: [PATCH] pre7-1 semicolon & nicely readableB

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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Chris Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > I want to inform you that you're wrong. The only difference is
> > in readability.
>
> [..]
>
> > In fact, the <10 test is only there to prevent infinite looping
> > for when a process with 0 swap_cnt "slips through" the tests above.
>
> If such a value should never "slip through", then, for
> readability, you want an assert (e.g. BUG() ).

It's ok for them to slip through, it's just not ok for the kernel
to go into an infinite loop here...

Rik

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